Parenthood is proving to be too expensive for Halle Berry as she is now looking to reduce the amount of child support she pays to her ex-love Gabriel Aubry, which is currently at a whopping $16,000 a month.

Halle Berry
Berry is looking to reduce the monthly payment to $3,800

The pair, who currently share joint custody, are parents to a daughter, Nahla, 6, and in June Berry was originally ordered to maintain this monthly payment until their daughter graduates from high school or turns 19 years-old.

However, Berry has reportedly filed legal documents that request the monthly amount be reduced to around $3,800 a month, according to TMZ. This comes after a long and tumultuous custody battle, which included Aubry successfully denying Berry's request to move Nahla to France, with her new partner Olivier Martinez.

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But Aubry is trying to contest the reduction by claiming he needs the cash because he was unable to find any modelling work for six months after a physical altercation occurred between himself and Martinez on Thanksgiving 2012, which ended with Aubry's face bruised and cut.

The Oscar-winning actress thinks her former flame is blowing the money on fitness, clothing, electronics, car and health insurance, and is trying to avoid getting a job. "There is no case, no law, no logic that says a healthy, active man gets to simply live off child support that the wealthier mother earns," she says, TMZ reports.

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Apart from their shared daughter, Berry has little to do with Aubry and is now the mother of two other children with her actor husband, Martinez.